Independent New York Announces Highlights for the 2018 Edition

Independent is pleased to announce programming highlights for the ninth edition of Independent New York, which will return to Spring Studios in Tribeca from March 8–11, 2018.

The 2018 edition of Independent New York will include many solo, two-artist, and site-driven projects, featuring new work created specifically for Independent as well as scholarly historical presentations. Matthew Higgs, the director of White Columns, returns as the Independent’s founding curatorial advisor, curating a forum that is an authentic reflection of the gallery landscape and encourages innovative approaches to fair exhibitions.

Solo Presentations

Nearly half of the 57 exhibitors will present solo exhibitions of international artists, ranging from emerging artists in their first New York exhibitions to new bodies of work by established contemporary artists to historic explorations of under-discovered artists of the last century, including:

303 Gallery (New York): an exhibition of works by pioneering conceptual artist Hans-Peter Feldmann that will serve as a broad overview of his career.

Alden Projects (New York): the first archival exhibition to focus on William N. Copley’s wide-ranging publishing activities, including his collaboration on multiples with Marcel Duchamp, On Kawara, Roy Lichtenstein, and other artists.

CANADA (New York): a site-specific installation of new sculptures hand-built from ceramic tiles by Elisabeth Kley, accompanied by ink drawings.

Cheim & Read (New York): works in various media from the early nineties by Jack Pierson, centered on the iconic sculpture 'Diamond Life' and including the artist’s first text sculpture.C L E A R I N G (New York, Brussels): three-dimensional paintings by Harold Ancart that evoke handball courts - a staple of NYC parks - and mark a literal intersection between painting and sculpture; intimate landscape and proposals for public art.

Elizabeth Dee Gallery (New York): a presentation of site-specific paintings by Carl Ostendarp, known for his sly minimalist approach to comic graphics and text.

Delmes & Zander (Cologne): works by Romanian artist Alexandru Chira (b. 1947 – d. 2011) in his first solo show outside of his home country, reflecting his interests in architecture, design, astronomy, history, magic, UFO-logy, and theosophy.

Garth Greenan Gallery (New York): three paintings by Jaune Quick-to-See Smith that provide an overview of the artist’s work between 1989 and 1993. From the famous series “I See Red,” the work extends and elaborates her assertion of red as a signature of Native American identity.

Galerie Hervé Bize (Nancy): works by Jacques Charlier (b. 1939, Belgium), a pioneer of European conceptual art, whose work is defined by his critical approach of the art world and clichés of the avant-garde.

Marlborough Contemporary (New York): recent paintings by Werner Büttner, a member of the Junge Wilde group in 1980s Cologne, whose paintings approach political, existential and philosophical themes with dark humor.

Peres Projects (Berlin): the gallery’s first exhibition of Rebecca Ackroyd (b. 1987), whose work toys with the discipline of sculpture, as processes are dissected to their bare bones in a diverse language of making that questions relationships between drawing, abstraction and figuration.

Martos Gallery (New York): a selection of drawings, paintings, and sculptures from the Estate of Kathleen White, an artist in the downtown New York alternative scene during the AIDS epidemic, who passed away in 2014.

Sikkema Jenkins & Co. (New York): an exhibition of the late Tony Feher’s (b. 1956 - d. 2016) elegant and poetic sculptures and installations created from familiar, everyday objects. The presentation will highlight and contextualize important points from his 30+ year career.

The Sunday Painter (London): a site-specific installation of 100 black-and-white paintings by Cynthia Daignault that attempt to create a portrait of the contemporary zeitgeist.

Tilton Gallery (New York): an exhibition of mixed-media wall works by Tomashi Jackson (b. 1980), whose work interrogates the subliminal impact of color perception on the value of human life in public space.

VNH Gallery (Paris): a solo exhibition of new paintings by Cy Gavin (b. 1985, Pittsburgh) featuring his most recent series of intricate, colorful paintings that draw inspiration from Bermuda.

New Sound & Video Program Curated by David Gryn of Daata Editions, Co-hosted by Independent and Spring Place

Renowned sound and video curator David Gryn will program a series of immersive audio experiences and film screenings throughout the public spaces of Independent and Spring Place for the duration of Independent New York. A new collaborative initiative co-hosted by Spring Place, the program will feature select audio and video works by artists from exhibiting galleries to transform the experience of the common areas. Artists to be featured include: Larry Achiampong, Maria Antelman, Thora Dolven Balke, Genesis BREYER P-ORRIDGE, Jake Chapman, Keren Cytter, Elliot Dodd, Graham Dolphin, Alexandra Drewchin, FlucT, Leo Gabin, Joachim Koester & Stefan Pedersen, Lina Lapelyte, Laurel Nakadate, Rashaad Newsome, Tin Ojeda, Hannah Perry, Puppies Puppies, Ariana Reines, Marina Rosenfeld, John Skoog, Scott Treleaven, Stephen Vitiello, and Saya Woolfalk (list in formation).

Independent is an invitational art fair devised by and for gallerists, which reexamines traditional methods of presenting, viewing, and experiencing contemporary art. The selected participants represent the art world’s most creative and inspired curatorial visions from a cross section of emerging, mid-career and established programs from around the world. Now in its ninth year, Independent has a rotating participant network of over 240 galleries from 50 cities worldwide.